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tactfully pointed out to me that the knot had already appeared in an obscure
1950s US booklet called Knots for Mountaineers by Phil D. Smith, simply
named as a Rigger’s bend.
Smith had discovered the knot for himself in 1943 while working on the San
Francisco waterfront. When contacted, he generously stated that Dr. Hunter was
welcome to any publicity he attracted; and, as a consequence of the media
attention, so many knotting enthusiasts came into contact with one another, that
it became possible, in 1982, to establish the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
